Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge by Stephen Knight Phonewriting or described in ways that

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winner of the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award

The poems are published in their first edition

abandoned on a stony island

Reward for Winter tells that story on three levels: the earthy triumphs and tribulations of a novice smallholder

Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge by Stephen Knight Phonewriting or described in ways thatI cut the rainfall's fingernails. Taking risks with both form and language, the resonant and echoing poems in Stephen Knights new collection are pitched tenderly and sometimes fiercely against the engulfing tides of grief and separation and dismay. The first collection for eight years from a long admired poet whose work has been twice shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His poems have that kind of humour that is simply an alternative to a cry of